VSTO

[David12345]

What is Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) (I have Office Professional
Version 10.0 and Visual Studio.NET as well as VB6.0) so is VSTO a separate
piece of software that one has to buy in addition to buying Office 2003 and
Visual Studio 2003?

 

[Harlan Grove]

David12345 wrote...

What is Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) (I have Office Professional
Version 10.0 and Visual Studio.NET as well as VB6.0) so is VSTO a separate
piece of software that one has to buy in addition to buying Office 2003 and
Visual Studio 2003?

Google web search is your friend.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=VSTO&btnG=Google+Search

Even searching Microsoft's own site would be useful.

http://search.microsoft.com/results.aspx?mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&q=VSTO

That said, it's more likely the average Visual Studio developer would
know more about VSTO than the average Excel user, so you may get a
better answer in

microsoft.public.vstudio.general

to which I've crossposted this reply.

 

[Michael D. Ober]

VSTO is a "Office 2003" integration library that claims to replace the VBA
in Office with .NET. In reality, you don't need it unless you are creating
dialogs for Office. I connect to the Office COM objects and use the native
object models. VS 2005 will create the interop libraries for you.

Mike Ober.